Bibtex

title = "SimianWorld - A Study of Social Organisation Using an Artificial Life Model",

author = "Susan Attwood and Lola Cañamero and {te Boekhorst}, Rene",

year = "2013",

doi = "10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch090",

pages = "633--640",

editor = "Pietro Lio",

booktitle = "Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013",

publisher = "MIT Press",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - SimianWorld - A Study of Social Organisation Using an Artificial Life Model

AU - Attwood,Susan

AU - Cañamero,Lola

AU - te Boekhorst,Rene

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - In studies of social behaviour it is commonly assumed that individual complexity is the origin of intricate social interactions. In primates for example, social complexity is attributed to their intelligence and it is argued by many that the cognitive capacity of primates are especially manifest in the way they regulate their social relationships. Whereas the complex societies of non-human primates are considered to be as a direct result of their cognitive abilities this assumption is not made about social insects. In the absence of certain cognitive abilities their complex societies and structurally sophisticated nests are thought to arise from self-organisation. Since it is unlikely that cognitive capacities are all-or-nothing, usually integrating a range of mechanisms, it is possible that different species use similar cognitive mechanisms resulting in different ent behavioural outcomes

AB - In studies of social behaviour it is commonly assumed that individual complexity is the origin of intricate social interactions. In primates for example, social complexity is attributed to their intelligence and it is argued by many that the cognitive capacity of primates are especially manifest in the way they regulate their social relationships. Whereas the complex societies of non-human primates are considered to be as a direct result of their cognitive abilities this assumption is not made about social insects. In the absence of certain cognitive abilities their complex societies and structurally sophisticated nests are thought to arise from self-organisation. Since it is unlikely that cognitive capacities are all-or-nothing, usually integrating a range of mechanisms, it is possible that different species use similar cognitive mechanisms resulting in different ent behavioural outcomes